Tag Archives: scripts

Backups

I bought a 500Gb external hard drive recently—and for some time had been using flyback to backup my home folder there. I used to take a weekly backup, but after time, I stopped being so regular.

It has been months now since I last took a backup, so I decided to start afresh. This time, [...]

Random Ubuntu tip of the day—Spell check everywhere

Note: this post isn’t too user-friendly, so beware.

I’ve heard that Macs have a nice global spell-check system. I’ve never used a Mac, but having a single spelling checker at the OS-level seems like a good idea. You won’t need to train the spell-checks embedded in each application individually.

I used to have a hack on Windows [...]